A guide to Point Pedro: Sri Lanka's northernmost town, its lighthouse, traditional rest house, cotton fields, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Manalkadu Desert near Point Pedro: coastal sand dunes engulfing a century-old church, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Keerimalai Springs near Jaffna: the legend of a healed princess, its ancient mongoose-sage origin, sacred bathing pools, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Maviddapuram Kandaswamy Temple: founded by a princess cured of facial disfigurement, its name meaning, history and revival, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Naguleswaram Siva Kovil at Keerimalai: one of Sri Lanka's five ancient Pancha Ishwaram Shiva temples, its 1894 rebuild, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Vallipuram: the 1936 gold plate discovery, a Buddha statue found under a Vishnu Kovil, and its journey to Thailand, visiting tips and...

A guide to the Vallipuram Vishnu Kovil in Thunnalai: one of Jaffna's oldest Hindu temples, its legends of Vishnu's ten avatars, visiting tips and map.

A guide to the Jaffna Islands: Kayts, Punkudutivu, Karaitivu, Nainativu and Delft, connected by causeway and ferry, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Delft Island (Neduntivu): its feral horses, coral-built ruins, ancient baobab tree, visiting tips and map.

A guide to Nainativu (Nagadeepa): where a major Hindu Shakti Peetha and one of Buddhism's holiest Sri Lankan sites sit peacefully side by side, visiting...